Christmas is officially one week away. Are you ready? In case you’re still not sure what to ask for, my latest freelance post for Brazen Careerist highlights nine holiday gift ideas meant to take your career to the next level. A holiday gift guide for young professionals, if you will. See a sneak preview of …

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Start your week right! Every Sunday I post my favorite links from around the web and share my goals for the upcoming week. Links On Freelancing: 8 Things I Love About NOT Being Self-Employed: Interesting. A view from a person who did the freelance thing for awhile and jumped back into a full-time career working …

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As I mentioned in my Start Your Week Right Sunday post this week, one of the reasons I truly love blogging is because of all of the fantastic and otherwise not readily available opportunities that come from posting regularly. After including Greg Galant’s article “Why PR Gets No Respect” in my weekly roundup a couple …

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Nearly a month after completing the Philadelphia Half Marathon, I’m finally coming off my runner’s high, thinking ahead to new racing goals and putting my 13.1 mile journey through Philadelphia behind me. Looking back on race day, I think about the flurry of emotions that ran through my body, but more specifically, my mind. Many …

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Start your week right! Every Sunday I post my favorite links from around the web and share my goals for the upcoming week. Links On Careers: How Social Media Affects Your Job Search: I can always count on Gini Dietrich and her team from  Spin Sucks for a weekly dose of useful information. This week, I was struck by Gini’s …

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One of my responsibilities at work is to manage our marketing and communications internship program. From reviewing resumes, to conducting interviews to coordinating the day-to-day duties of our interns, this process has given me tremendous insight on both good and not-so-good ways to approach landing and succeeding at an internship. My latest post for Brazen …

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Today is my mom’s birthday. Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how over the years our relationship has shifted and changed. With age, we’ve become more than just mother and daughter- we’ve become friends! As I caught myself willingly watching not one, but two, Lifetime Christmas movies on TV on Sunday night, I realized that as …

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